Quebec’s taxi industry is stepping up its fight against ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc., unveiling plans to file a court injunction this week seeking to shut down the service in the province. The move by the union representing 4,000 Quebec drivers and taxi owners comes on top of a class-action lawsuit application against Uber, and warnings that more protests by the taxi industry …
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A class-action lawsuit filed in Colorado is focusing new attention on the “life coaching” industry, a quickly growing but unregulated field that attracts many practitioners who lack any training or certification. Life coaching. Paul Bradbury / Getty Images/Caiaimage Coral Rose Grant and her husband Gary McGonagle “Mac” Grant II, who ran a life coaching business in Windsor, Colorado, called The …
The makers of Cold-FX have sat for years on a study that suggested Canada’s most popular cold and flu remedy was no more effective than a placebo in treating symptoms of the viruses. The 2004 trial was conducted by Dr. Gerry Predy, a top Alberta public-health official, at a time when the supplement’s makers told consumers the product would bring fast relief from the effects of such ailments. …
The Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a defeat to businesses, ruling that they cannot stop a class-action lawsuit by offering to pay the full amount sought by the original plaintiff. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court sided against advertising firm Campbell Ewald that was trying to avoid a class-action lawsuit. ADVERTISEMENT “An unaccepted settlement offer or offer of judgment does not moot a …
* Author: Davey Alba.Davey Alba Business * Date of Publication: 01.26.16.01.26.16 * Time of Publication: 1:52 pm.1:52 pm Uber Using Phone Data To Track How Fast Drivers Are Going Ride-hailing giant Uber says it’s using smartphone gyrometer data to double-check if drivers on its platform are speeding. At least, it does for a portion of its drivers on a new pilot program. Joe Sullivan, Uber’s …
Lyft has agreed to pay more than $12 million in a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking to classify drivers as employees in California. In a settlement agreement reached late Tuesday, the ride-hailing service would extend additional benefits to drivers and pay them to resolve the dispute but not make them official employees. Shannon Liss-Riordan, the Boston attorney who represented Lyft drivers …
* Author: Davey Alba.Davey Alba Business * Date of Publication: 01.26.16.01.26.16 * Time of Publication: 5:09 pm.5:09 pm Paris Cabbies and Uber Are Clashing—Again French taxi unions and Uber are clashing again. Taxi drivers in France have once more gone on strike—shutting down roads, demonstrating across Paris, and blocking access to major airports and railway stations, according to French …
And now, for its most expensive act: Volkswagen might buy back some of the 575,000 cars affected by Dieselgate in the United States. Robert Giuffra, a lawyer defending Volkswagen against class-action suits, indicated during a court hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco last week that if the German automaker is unable repair some of its diesel models in a timely manner, it might …
A talent listing service would have to pay about $1.6 million — including cash and services — to resolve a case affecting thousands of former clients under a class-action settlement preliminarily approved by a federal judge in Los Angeles. The company, One Source Talent of Troy, Mich., charges people a monthly fee of $40 to access a database of audition and employment opportunities in the …